https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v en-us 2019-03-19 14:47:14 UTC 2025-04-03 19:48:36 UTC hello@padlet.com camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345293663 This book is perhaps the biggest reference for my project, it talks a lot about the concept of the everyday and it shows all kind of artists (writers, paintors, designers, photographers, filmmakers) and their works that were based on the everyday. A lot of researches here are going to exist thanks to this book.

[THOUGHTS I HAD ABOUT THE BOOK AFTER READING IT]

I got very excited with this book when Carlos passed it to me as a reference, so excited that I read almost everything (I just didn't read everything because there were some things that hasn't a lot to do with my work and I thought I was wasting time). I can certanly say it changed my vision to a lot of subjects related to the everyday life. I was having trouble finding references for my subject and after reading that I realized it was because I didn't knew where to start, where to look at. This book is my project in a way. Now that I absorbed evetything I could from this book it is time to start researching from my own, now I need my own references to create something 100% mine. ]]> 2019-03-26 14:51:03 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345293663 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345296409 "The curatorial approach (by Jonathan Watkins) was to attempt an understanding of the relativism of the every day, the differences between what is familiar, common or ordinary within the diversity of cultures represented. The aim was to communicate the nature of the every day and to be culturally specific, declaring differences without resorting to exoticism particularly in the presentation of non-Western art."

Some of the works that are here are from this Bienalle, they are not the most important references because I think they are too deep and dense due to their personal point of view, they have a more mature vision of the everytday and I'm still discovering, I'm still searching. I don't want to belittle my work and say it is childish, I'm just saying that I have more to do and 3 month work are not enough to improve my vision from this subject, besides that, we're talking about Bienalle it is HUGE, it has to be. ]]> 2019-03-26 14:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345296409 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345307916 Nan Goldin is an American photographer specially known for documenting herself and her closest friends, especially in the LGBTQ community.
“I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul."
The uploaded picture shows a scene of a group of friends doing a picnic and it portrays their essence and the moment they were right when the photo was taken. That is the kind of essence I want to pass, the reality itself and some great moments that no one actually see it with an artistic point of view.

Artnet.com. (2019). Nan Goldin | artnet. [online] Available at: http://www.artnet.com/artists/nan-goldin/.]]> 2019-03-26 15:14:21 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345307916 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345308130 "The film-makers are active participants throughout, and the interactions between themselves, and with other protagonists, create a space of exchange where the quotidian is approached from within an individual and collective matrix rather then from the outside"

"The film begins with a discussion between Rouch and Morin on whether or not it is possible to act sincerely in front of a camera. A cast of real-life individuals are then introduced and are led by the filmmakers to discuss topics on the themes of French society and happiness in the working class. At the end of the movie, the filmmakers show their subjects the compiled footage and have the subjects discuss the level of reality that they thought the movie obtained."

This is just one reference that I thought it would be nice to have, but I don't think I need to annalyse it since it is too deep talking about the concept of the movie. ]]> 2019-03-26 15:14:41 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345308130 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345308522 [FROM THE BOOK THE EVERYDAY]
"Using a diverse range of media such as video, film, photography, sculpture and installations, the work of Fischli & Weiss offers a re-reading of the dynamics of our perception of everyday life, through the distortion of time."

It is is a three-monitor video installation. Each monitor shows a different two hour video. The work consists of four videos in total and the images on the three screens are not synchronised. I think it is a nice solution for my project, maybe it doesn't need to have a sequence because you can see it from any part. One thing that was getting thru my mind was how am I supposed to show a video to a lot of person passing thru an exposition.
They show sequences of still photo taken by the artists during their international travels.

"THIS STRATEGY OF RE-APPROPRIATING AND AESTHETICISING THE COOMONPLACE IS CENTRAL TO THE ARTISTS PRACTICE."]]> 2019-03-26 15:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345308522 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345309221 [FROM THE BOOK THE EVERYDAY]
In the book I am reading for this project called "The Everyday" as I already said before, there is a little text of George Perec called The Street (1974). The interesting thing about Perec's reading is that he literally tries to pass to the readers everything that he's seeing. There is an exercise where he teaches you how to write "like him" (I mean the same style obviously) and when I go spend the day with people to get my material I'll try to do that to improve my work, I'll choose a time where "nothing" is happening and try to describe it with the most details possible. Maybe I can use that later in the exhibition or it will be just for myself. I might try to do one today just for fun, I'll write it down in my Project Book]]> 2019-03-26 15:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345309221 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345309879 [FROM THE BOOK THE EVERYDAY]
"[...] rather, it connected to what we termed the 'infra-ordinary', i.e. what we do when we do nothing, what we hear when we hear nothing, what happens when nothing happens. Outside of the city nothingness can perhaps exist [...] but it certainly does not exist in the city. In the city there is never a void. There is always background noise, there is always a symptom, a sign, a scent. So we were interested precisely in those things which are the opposite of the extraordinary yet which are not ordinary either - things which are 'infra'. [...]"

He talks a lot about his project in this fragment, but he also comments about Perec's work, he contributed in one of Virilios works and he said that his style was in a way just like his. They both had the interest in the city, in the common things turning to something amazing. He also talks a lot about the process of the camera being introduced to the world of literature, which is funny because he basically describes what I want to do in my project: to record what we don't pay attention to and turn that into something remarkable (I'll glue the text in my project book, I need to read that everyday).]]> 2019-03-26 15:17:43 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345309879 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345364150 [FROM THE BOOK THE EVERYDAY]
"She trains her camera on the repetition of ordinary life"

"You can feel the camera"

This video shows exactly the structure that I want to do, the content and the way she films it has nothing to do with what I'm expecting, she has an aggressive way of filming, I want something more delicate, I don't like when the camera moves fast and the frames are too sharp - I think it bothers the eye and it is tiring. But it is a nice reference when talking about her showing a day of a person.]]> 2019-03-26 16:58:43 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345364150 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345371194 This is also something interesting made by Chantal Akerman, she used to install cameras in differents points of different cities and make a video mixing the capture from the cameras afterwards. It is a nice way of showing the passage of time and how not only people change but the environment they are due to their actions.
I was thinking that maybe I can install cameras in my installation to record people while they're seeing my work and shows it in some little screen at the same time.]]> 2019-03-26 17:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/345371194 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/346571888 [FROM THE BOOK THE EVERYDAY]
This artist has the kind of perception I'm having with my work, in this project called "Color Matching" Alÿs is in one war environment and he starts mixing colours to get to the color palette of the scene. This got my eyes because he sees the beauty in a really aggressive environment, also one feeling I like to pass to people with my project, some kind of confusion but also gracefulness.]]> 2019-03-29 14:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/346571888 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/347785790 It is the term used to describe a literary stylistic device that makes a familiar object look strange and unusual. They make the audience of the theater to be wrenched from their linguistic habits, from thought and interpretation to more clichés. In theory, this "shock" provoked by alienation results in an altered view of things: reality appears in a new light. It is very common in cinema and in Bertold Brecht plays, he likes to make the audience think, they feel like Chess players, based on their reality they know which move the actors will make,he makes the audience see themselfs in the stage, like they are the characters. 

Buecher-wiki.de. (2019). Verfremdung: Alles über dieses beliebte literarische Stilmittel im Bücher-Wiki. [online] Available at: https://www.buecher-wiki.de/index.php/BuecherWiki/Verfremdung.]]> 2019-04-02 18:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/347785790 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/347786025 It is a group of artists, writers, and social critics that aimed to eliminate capitalism through the revolution of everyday life.
 
"They argued that a revolution would take place in the realm of everyday life because the alienating effects of capitalism were pervasive in modern society."

I researched this only because there are a lot of artists I'm searching that made part of this group and I had no idea what it was.]]> 2019-04-02 18:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/347786025 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/347839687 The fragile relationship of everyday objects to one another and to human beings is Orozco’s principal subject. In his early work, he placed such items in unexpected locations, documenting their presence in photographs. One of his works "Toilet Ventilator" is made by some toilet paper above a ceiling fan, it talks about the poetry of the everyday life through the movements of toilet paper. ]]> 2019-04-02 21:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/347839687 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/348964317 [FROM THE BOOK THE EVERYDAY]
He was the most influential figure in the Situationist International, he analyses the contradictions of the society we live in. Many films have provided a few insights into this or that aspect of modern society, but Debord’s is the only one that presents a consistent critique of the whole global system. Many radical filmmakers have given lip service to Brecht’s notion of encouraging spectators to think and act for themselves (Verfremdunseffekt) rather than sucking them into passive identification with hero or plot, but Debord is virtually the only one who has actually realized this goal. ]]> 2019-04-05 15:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/348964317 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/350040847 Besides artworks and installations, Gabriel Orozco also makes videos and takes photos. This is one of the photos he took and it is interesting thinking about my work because it is an everyday scene with an everyday object, but he gave another meaning to it, by calling this work "Octopus", he makes people think and look at it with another point of view.]]> 2019-04-09 17:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/350040847 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/350045134 2019-04-09 17:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/350045134 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/350046687 This has a lot to do with my idea of recording the people looking my video, I drew in my Project Book this idea where it has a hidden camera projecting the images simultaneously in a small TV while they're watching my film. I just think if this was mine I would hide the camera and do something more delicate and artistic.]]> 2019-04-09 17:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/350046687 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/353126981 This is one photographer that calls himself an everyday photographer, he photographs anything that he sees that catches his interest. The picture I uploaded for example is a part of some car, I don't know exactly what part it is but I can clearly see that it is a car, he just portraits it with a different eye that people usually see it. It contributes to my work because it is a reference on how to capture images with another eye but that people can still know what it is.

Usage, L., Brand, P. and Smash, C. (2019). The Everyday Photographer. [online] Scott Wyden Kivowitz. Available at: https://scottwyden.com/everyday-photographer/.]]> 2019-04-22 17:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/353126981 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/353130656 [RANDOM REFERENCE]
It is a random reference, it has nothing to do with my instalation but it is something to think. She paints huge fabrics and creates an imersive environment in a way, maybe I can think about doing something with the fabric and not using just itself. There is a technique called "sublimação" where you can print things in the fabric and is mostly used to print texts and letters.
Maybe I can take fromn this only the idea to create an imersive space, something more intimate.

Barnes, F. (2019). This Huge Fabric Installation in Sydney Looks Like a Magical Dreamscape. [online] Culture Trip. Available at: https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/transformed-katharina-grosses-mega-fabric-installation-sydney/.]]> 2019-04-22 17:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/353130656 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/353366181 They are works designed to transform the perception of a space, normally they are mixed-media constructions. What makes installation art different from sculpture or other traditional art forms is that it is a complete unified experience, it is not a single artwork, it is everything in one. The focus in the installation is the viewer.

Tate. (2019). Installation art – Art Term | Tate. [online] Available at: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/i/installation-art.  ]]> 2019-04-23 14:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/353366181 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/355243878 The simple one.]]> 2019-04-30 00:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/355243878 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/355243986 Pay attention to the color.]]> 2019-04-30 00:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/355243986 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/355244594 Christmas lights.]]> 2019-04-30 00:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/355244594 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/355244706 Canvas.]]> 2019-04-30 00:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/355244706 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/355244790 The strongest one. It looks like the fabrics are hung by a wood, that's what I want to do. I'm not sure about its name, but it is from the artist El Anatsui.]]> 2019-04-30 00:12:52 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/355244790 camila_andrade https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/355587172 - Those are some references for me about the clothesline, I searched references on pinterest and sites like that, so I'm not sure where to find them. -]]> 2019-04-30 18:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/camila_andrade/86yn6um6f72v/wish/355587172